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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 27 October 2013 22 Dhul-Hijja 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5865 Price: QR2 PM to open Tearful Serena Euromoney sets up Li Qatar meet final clash Business | 21 Sport | 32 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Barcelona beat Insurance Real 2-1 as Neymar shines plan details BARCELONA: Neymar stole the show from the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale when the Brazilian’s strike set Barcelona likely soon on the way to a 2-1 win over Real Madrid in yesterday’s ‘Clasico’ at the Nou Camp. NHIC role to be defined In a La Liga match watched by millions around the world, Barca DOHA: Several ambiguities scheme in which the healthcare landed a blow in the title race about the health insurance providers and insurers also have when Neymar scored a clinical scheme that is being made man- stakes. The regulations are likely goal in the 19th minute before datory for all in the country will to include a chapter about the substitute Alexis Sanchez netted soon be clarified by public health premiums and how to pay them. with a brilliant chip 11 minutes authorities as the decks are now It will specify relations between from time in the 167th league clear for the issue of executive the NHIC and health services meeting between the bitter rivals. regulations to help enforce the providers. The role of the SCH Jese came off the bench to pull health cover law. and that of the NHIC is also a goal back in the first minute of The law was issued a few expected to be discussed in detail added time but it was little more months ago and the first phase in the regulations. “The precise than a consolation for Real, who of the insurance scheme was duties and powers of the NHIC were outplayed for long peri- launched last July covering 90,000 will be specified in detail in the ods and slip six points behind Qatari women. The executive reg- executive regulations,” Hussain the champions with 10 matches ulations or bye-laws, which will told the daily. played. Unbeaten Barca’s victory, help implement the key legisla- He reiterated that healthcare their ninth in the league this sea- tion, are expected this week. providers will be given a stake in son, puts them on 28 points ahead They are likely to detail the the NHIC so the rules governing Barcelona’s Neymar (left) is challenged by Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane during their Spanish first division “Clasico” of third-placed Real at the top of various packages that will be it will also be specified in detail soccer match at Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona yesterday. the standings. REUTERS available under the compulsory in the bye-laws. Then, details of See also page 32 national health insurance scheme basic as well as advanced pack- and the premiums to be paid. ages offered by the insurers will So far healthcare providers as be mentioned as part of these well as people remain confused regulations. It is to be noted that about the kind of packages that according to the insurance law, the are to be offered by the insurers employers of foreign workers must and their premiums. provide health insurance not only Saudi women drive on day of protest The Supreme Council of Health to them but also to their depend- (SCH) has the draft of the execu- ents — wife and three children. RIYADH: A few women filmed Police put up checkpoints in morning, dated October 26 and across Saudi Arabia broadcast tive regulation ready and is making Expatriates who have more themselves driving in Saudi cit- some parts of Riyadh, Reuters purporting to show women driv- sermons on Friday telling women preparations to announce them in than three children will need to ies yesterday, defying govern- witnesses said, and there appeared ing in Riyadh, the oasis region of to stay at home. a few days. It is understood that the buy health cover for the remain- ment warnings of arrest and to be more traffic patrols than Al Ahsa and the city of Jeddah. Protests are illegal in Saudi regulations will be enforced imme- ing ones. Some private compa- prosecution to take part in a usual in the streets of the capital It was not possible to verify when Arabia, and public demands for diately after they are made public. nies this newspaper spoke to said campaign against men-only — the latest sign of the sensitivity they were filmed. political or social change have “The regulations are ready they are waiting for the execu- road rules, activists said. of the issue in the country. The Custodian of the Two traditionally been interpreted by and are expected to be issued tive regulations to be out to chalk But some others stayed at “I know of several women Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin the authorities as an unaccept- this week,” Dr Faleh Mohammad out details. “We need to know home, put off by phone calls from who drove earlier today. We will Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has able challenge to the ruling fam- Husain, Acting Chief Executive how much premium we have to men who said they were from post videos (online) later,” one pushed some cautious reforms, ily’s authority, local analysts say. Officer of the National Health pay. Based on that we will have the Interior Ministry, reported of the campaign organisers told expanding female education and However, organisers said their Insurance Company (NHIC), told to work out plans,” said a senior organisers of the demonstration Reuters by phone. Five videos employment. But he has also been call for women to drive yesterday Al Sharq. The NHIC is the piv- company official requesting ano- against an effective ban on women were published on the campaign’s careful not to open big rifts with was not a political protest. otal body for implementing the nymity. THE PENINSULA drivers. YouTube feed and Twitter yesterday conservative clerics. Mosques REUTERS No spying, please! Tear gas used Merkel phone tapped according to rules: Bahrain for 10 years: Report BERLIN: The phone of the allegations that the American DUBAI: Bahrain has defended German chancellor, Angela intelligence agency has been its use of tear gas after rights Merkel, might have been moni- tapping the mobile phone of the groups criticised the country’s tored for more than 10 years, chancellor, Angela Merkel. reported plans to buy 1.6 mil- according to a report in Der The German government’s dep- lion canisters of the material. Spiegel. It said that her mobile uty spokesman, Georg Streiter, Local and international rights telephone number had been said: “We are talking to the groups have accused the authori- listed by the NSA’s Special Americans to clear things up ties of using tear gas excessively Collection Service (SCS) as quickly as possible. A high- and of firing canisters directly at since 2002 — marked as “GE level delegation will travel for protesters or into cars and houses Chancellor Merkel” — and was talks with the White House and where they can cause serious still on the list weeks before National Security Agency to push injuries. President Barack Obama vis- forward the investigation into the “Tear gas is non-lethal and ited Berlin in June. recent allegations.” it is used appropriately by the In an SCS document cited by The delegation will include police, in compliance with the law the magazine, the agency said it senior officials from the German and in full adherence with the had a “not legally registered spy- secret service, according to internationally accepted stand- ing branch” in the US embassy German media reports. ards contained in the Bahrain in Berlin, the exposure of which Germany and Brazil are spear- police code of conduct,” the would lead to “grave damage for heading efforts at the United government spokesman’s office the relations of the United States Nations to protect the privacy said. to another government”. of electronic communications. The tiny island state has Demonstrators from the organisation Code Pink wear toy glasses reading Stop Spying at the ‘Stop Watching From there, NSA and CIA staff Diplomats from the two countries, been in political upheaval since Us: A Rally Against Mass Surveillance’ near the US Capitol in Washington, yesterday. were tapping communication in which have both been targeted by February 2011, when mass pro- the Berlin’s government district the NSA, are leading efforts by tests led by the mostly Shia oppo- with high-tech surveillance. a coalition of nations to draft a sition were crushed by the Sunni Quoting a secret document UN general assembly resolution monarchy. Obama vows to repair website Syrian Kurds, jihadists clash from 2010, Der Spiegel said such calling for the right to privacy on The government statement was branches existed in about 80 loca- the internet. made in response to a query about WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama DAMASCUS: Fierce clashes raged yesterday tions around the world, includ- Although non-binding, the a leaked document published by promised yesterday that his troubled healthcare after Syrian Kurds seized from jihadists a crossing ing Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, resolution would be one of the Bahrain Watch, an advocacy website was just weeks away from a cure as he on the Iraqi border, a key supply route for weap- Geneva and Frankfurt. strongest condemnations of US group, which appeared to be a struggled to convince Americans he is on top of ons and fighters in the 31-month war, activists Merkel’s spokesman and the snooping to date.

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